People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — REFUSE TO BE OUSTED. [ARTICLE]

REFUSE TO BE OUSTED.

Michigan State Officers to Have Nearly a Month of Grace. Lansing, Mich., Feb. 22.— 1 t will be ! fully three weeks before Michigan has | any new state officers and it will have none then unless the supreme court up- | holds the governor’s action in remov- J ing the derelict members of the board i of canvassers. Acting on the ad- j vice of his counsel, who concluded 1 that such action was unnecessary to the determination of the question as to j the governor’s power to remove, the j latter has decided to abandon his plan I to make his appointments at once j and have the appointees commence I quo warranto proceedings against j the beheaded officials, who refuse j to vacate their offices. The case, ; it has been decided, can be brought j before the court by instituting such j proceedings in the name of the attor- i ney general, and this course, by the • consent of all parties, will be pursued, i As previously arrauged the matter will j be submitted March 6. Should the ' court sustain the governor the vacancies j will then be filled. The case brought by the governor to ! compel a recanvass of the vote on the ' amendment of 1891 increasing the attorney general’s salary was argued and submitted in the supreme court Tuesday. Court has adjourned until Tuesday next, when it is expected an opinion will be filed.